Lana Hechtman Ayers
Hope Will Arrive as Rain
a prose sonnet for B.
all day wispy clouds haunt my ears / my stormy thoughts gale force winds / the world says it’s spring / all the flowers are busy fires / all the bees voracious to burn / away their brief sweet lives
I was like that once but outlasted / the roses and rainbows of angst / now I harness my aging self /a nag ready for glad pasture / my memory wears gloves indoors / routines of bathing, eating, pressing
send / ironic desperate melody / the window is my one remaining dream / I wait beside it / for sky’s tears to stream
I was like that once but outlasted / the roses and rainbows of angst / now I harness my aging self /a nag ready for glad pasture / my memory wears gloves indoors / routines of bathing, eating, pressing
send / ironic desperate melody / the window is my one remaining dream / I wait beside it / for sky’s tears to stream
Lana Hechtman Ayers shepherded over a hundred fifty poetry volumes into print in her role as managing editor for three small presses. Her work appears in such journals as Rattle, The London Reader, and Peregrine, as well as in her latest collection, The Autobiography of Rain (Fernwood Press, 2024).